December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 221st anniversary of the day when the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights - were ratified in 1791.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 10:47 am
By: Diane Rufino
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But I have serious problems in his (Abraham Lincoln) legal and Constitutional justifications for the Civil War.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is easy to see how our Founder's were influenced by John Locke when designing our government and drafting our founding documents.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Last year, I taught classes on the Constitution, Our Founding Fathers, Our Founding Principles, The Federal Court System, The Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When a curious woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787 and asked him what kind of government the delegates had given the people, he replied: "...A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it."
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Lately, the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee, which I chair, has been either commended or crucified by other Republican activists. Contrary to the belief of many, I do not think we are saints or sinners in this regard.
Published: Monday, October 29th, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Constitution was established to provide limited centralized government. It was established as an "agent" or servant of the States. It was to serve the common interests of the States so that they can act like a "Union" of states and not 13 independent states.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2012 @ 12:53 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The NC Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) recently published an article about nullification, asserting that it not a legitimate constitutional remedy.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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What ever became of the Bill of Rights?? Specifically; Amendment I (Freedom of Religion, Speech and the Press: Rights of Assembly and Petition), Amendment II (The Right to Bear Arms), and Amendment X (Powers Retained by the States and the People).
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 @ 9:32 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Jefferson believed it was up to the States, the parties who drafted and ratified the Constitution and thus created the federal government to stand up to the government when it exceeds constitutional bounds.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 6:05 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is a good thing the doctrines of nullification and interposition are being revived. Perhaps it's the urgency of the constitutional crisis we face that has made the doctrines so appealing and sensible.
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Our Founders made sure they provided for the proper avenues to counter a government that evinces such a design and even provided for the right to abolish that government.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Obamacare has the potential to transform this country into one that dangerously curbs our fundamental freedoms, socializes wealth, status, and risk, and puts us at the mercy and the discretion of a government that is more interested in social engineering than the individual rights.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 12:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The need for government, plain and simple, is because absolute freedom is impossible.
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 @ 6:11 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Calvin Coolidge once said: "To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2011 @ 11:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We want to motivate, inspire and activate this generation to be Patriots with Moral Character. We want to help find, develop, and train leaders to help restore our country to the Republic our Founding Fathers meant it to be.
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 @ 2:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The English Bill of Rights was clearly a precursor to our US Bill of Rights.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As might be expected, the text of the Magna Carta of 1215 bears many traces of haste, and is clearly the product of much bargaining and many hands.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2011 @ 12:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Scholars view the Constitution from 2 viewpoints: Some see the Constitution as an unchanging document; and others see the Constitution as a "Living Document."
Published: Thursday, September 16th, 2010 @ 4:36 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This is install considers: the the first ten in the Bill of Rights, an overview of the Constitution, and then the remaining seventeen of the Bill of Rights.
Published: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 @ 10:20 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In this 4th segment of Diane Rufino's examination of our Founding Principles, she examines: Compact Federalism, the Federalist Farmer andAlexis de Tocqueville.
Published: Friday, September 10th, 2010 @ 9:03 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Published: Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 @ 1:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Diane Rufino: "I think Mike Hayes and I have a fundamental disagreement on both the foundation and the future of this country."
Published: Friday, May 21st, 2010 @ 6:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is in response to the article, “Physician, Heal Thyself,” by Mike Hayes.
Published: Saturday, May 1st, 2010 @ 1:19 am
By: Diane Rufino
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